Lot 450
  • 450

Wangechi Mutu

Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
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Description

  • Wangechi Mutu
  • Try Dismantling the Little Empire Inside You
  • ink, Mylar, pigment and photo collage, in 2 parts
  • Overall: 95 1/2 by 104 in. 242.5 by 264.1 cm.
  • Executed in 2007.

Provenance

Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2007

Exhibited

Brooklyn Museum, Global Feminisms, March - July 2007

Condition

This work is in excellent condition overall. The collage elements appear to be present and stable. The edges of both sheets are unevenly cut, which is inherent to the artist’s working method. Both sheets are hinged verso to the matte intermittently along all four edges. There is a slight undulation to both sheets, most notably along the bottom edges. Each framed under Plexiglas. Please refer to Sothebys.com for an updated image of this work.
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Catalogue Note

"Kenya is rapidly developing its industry and manufacturing, and its cultural identity as a new country. We had a humongous history pre-British, and when we were colonized and violently reshuffled, we had to decide who we were again. We couldn't rest on the stories and the cultures of our great-grandparents." Wangechi Mutu